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Jayanta Kumar Ghosh
Jayanta Kumar Ghosh
Born (1937-05-23) May 23, 1937 (age 87)
Nationality Indian
Alma materUniversity of Calcutta
Scientific career
FieldsStatistician
InstitutionsIndian Statistical Institute
Purdue University

Jayanta Kumar Ghosh or Jaẏanta Kumāra Ghosha (Bengali: জয়ন্ত কুমার ঘোষ, born May 23, 1937) is an Indian statistician, currently emeritus professor at Indian Statistical Institute and a professor of statistics at Purdue University.

Education

He obtained a B.S. from Presidency College, then affiliated with the University of Calcutta, and subsequently a M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Calcutta. He started his research career in the early 1960s, studying sequential analysis as a graduate student in the department of statistics at the University of Calcutta.[1]

Research

Among his best-known discoveries are the Bahadur–Ghosh–Kiefer representation (with R. R. Bahadur and Jack Kiefer)[2] and the Ghosh–Pratt identity along with John W. Pratt.[3]

His research contributions fall within the fields of:

Awards/Honors

Bibliography

He has published over 50 research papers. He has also published four books, which are:

References

  1. ^ Bertrand Clarke,, Subhashis Ghosal. "J. K. Ghosh's contribution to statistics". projecteuclid.org.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  2. ^ Lahiri, S. N (1992). "On the Bahadur–Ghosh–Kiefer representation of sample quantiles". Statistics & probability letters. 15 (2): 163–168. doi:10.1016/0167-7152(92)90130-w.
  3. ^ Casella, George (1996). "The Ghosh–Pratt Identity". Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online. doi:10.1002/9781118445112.stat01501.